Famous quotes containing the words smallest and/or scales:
“The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of lifethis much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“In what camera do you taste
Poison, in what darkness set
Glittering scales and point
The tipping tongue?”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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